Police officer charged with enticing child for photos

Washington County Sheriff's OfficeMatthew Skaggs COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An eastern Missouri police officer was arrested this week in Cole County afte...

August 12, 2022
10:50 PM

Washington County Sheriff's OfficeMatthew Skaggs COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An eastern Missouri police officer was arrested this week in Cole County after investigators allege he was giving a high school boy vape cartridges with THC in them in exchange for explicit photos. Matthew N. Skaggs of Potosi, Missouri, is charged in Washington County, Missouri, with statutory sodomy, child enticement and child endangerment. He was arrested Wednesday and taken to the Washington County Jail, the Potosi Police Department chief said in a statement.

Matthew Sanders